90s Fox Vanilla R refurb for Mount Vision

[fogger]

I got this late 90s Fox Vanilla R coil shock from a Marin Mount Vision mk1 frame. My primary frame, Mount Vision Pro 1999 came with a Float R that I replaced with a nice modern Suntour SR21 Edge LOR, but I though making a spare winter beater shock from the Vanilla coil would be a fun exercise.

Starting off, bleeding the rubber bead-sealed IFP with a needle and opening the thing up, first hick-up was the wrong end of the damn thing unthreading


Gonna need to stick the IFP end cap on with some red threadlock, and try again with more heat.



I don't fancy the rubber bead style IFP sealing on these Fox shocks, so I drilled the cap out and ordered a schrader valve for the thing. Guess I'm gonna tap some M8 thread on the end cap and seal it with JB-Weld.



Also I got a seal kit from Canada on the way.

 

[fogger]

Guess the epoxy will be plenty so I decided to omit the threading on the IFP valve



easy enough. The seal kit didn't come with a new IFP end o-ring, so I just refreshed the original one with some PM600 and threadlocked the cap back on. I had the cylinder and the shalf end soaking in penetrating fluid, sure hope it will come off now.

 

[rentedmule]

Thanks for posting the source of that seal kit! I'd looked a while back and nothing came up in my search. That company looks like a great resource.

The shock is looking great so far!

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

If anybody is looking for another possible source of seals, I got a seal kit for an old Rockshox Monarch shock from this guy in Israel a few years ago
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/abagrizzli
He didn't have a specific kit that contained all the seals I needed, the short extender for the Schrader valve needed a tiny o-ring, contacted him and he made up a kit to suit. Fitted and all OK. Arrived reasonably quickly to here in Scotland.